Join Peace Action New York State for this conversation with two leading peace and justice historians, Lawrence Wittner and Blanche Wiesen Cook, about the past and future of resistance to nuclear weapons. Register here.  (Fundraiser for Peace Action New York State.)

Two new popular films — Oppheimer and Einstein and the Bomb— have brought nuclear weapons and the scientists who developed them to the forefront of the public consciousness in recent months. However, these films have  stopped short of exploring the public warnings by Oppenheimer and Einstein about the grave dangers to human survival in the nuclear age and about their efforts to create a nuclear weapons-free world. Furthermore, it’s important to give appropriate credit to the vast public nuclear disarmament campaign that, in the years after 1945, succeeded in curbing the nuclear arms race and preventing nuclear war. Faced today with a revival of the nuclear arms race and new threats of nuclear annihilation, it’s time to examine the struggles of the past and consider what might be done to end the nuclear menace in the future.

Join us for an online discussion on the past and future of resistance to nuclear weapons! 

Leading the discussion will be Lawrence Wittner, Professor of History Emeritus at SUNY Albany and author of numerous books and hundreds of articles on peace and foreign policy issues including Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement (Stanford University Press).

Moderating the discussion will be Blanche Wiesen Cook, a Distinguished Professor of History and Women’s Studies at John Jay College and the CUNY Graduate Center. Professor Cook is the author of numerous books and has edited and contributed to many anthologies.

Register here.